A small white legume that takes its name from the fact that the U.S. Navy has served it as a staple since the 1800's. Used widely in canned pork and beans and in Boston baked beans.
a variety of kidney bean; small and ovoid with a white skin and flesh; a staple of the U.S. Navy since the 1880s, it is also known as the beautiful bean, Boston bean, and Yankee bean.
Navy Bean is a web comic by a cartoonist called Melange. The strip is based on an anthropomorphic bean with a skull cap named Navy Bean. Navy Bean is the host of a children's TV program.